74 ESSAY O.V 



lirmcd by no inscription found near Bouircs some 

 years ago, and inserted in tlie fifth volume of the 

 Asiatic Researches, but witliout a translation. It 

 was Avritten in the year of VicramacTitya 1083, an- 

 swering to the year io-2() of the Christian era. There 

 it is said, that Sthi'hapa'la, and his brother Vesan- 

 tapa'la, the sons of Bmupa'la, king of Gtf/^n/, had 

 erected a most sumptuous monument, still existing, 

 at a place called Sani/flh, near Benares. This monu- 

 ment of j5Af/z^r/(/Vz/V<f kings is mentioned by Taver- 

 NiER, who mistook it for 7\. sepulchral iwowument o? 

 the kings of Boutan. S'TiifRAPAXA is mentioned 

 under tliC name of Dhirapa'la, in the list of the 

 kings oi Bengal, in the Ayin^ Acberi ; by which it ap- 

 pears that they pretended to be descended from Bha'- 

 GADATTA, thc SOU of Naraca, king o^ Pragyotisha^ 

 now Gauhati,heyondGualpa7Yi, on the borders oi'Assam. 



Naraca was put to death by Crishna ; but he 

 restored the kingdom to his son Bha'gadatta. 



VIII. The country o'i Magadlia was thus called 

 from the numerous families descended from the sage 

 Maga, the oftspring of the sun, and the grandson 

 of tlie venerable Twashta'h in the west. They 

 came into 7W/V/ in the time of CrYshna, at the re- 

 quest of his son Sa'imba. They settled in the pro- 

 vince of Ckata, now south BaJiar. There are two 

 tribes of Brahmens in India: those of Canyacubja, 

 or Canoge ; and the Sacasox S\(calas, thus called 

 because they came from Sacam, or Sdca-divipa. They 

 arc also called JSIagas, from their sire Maga ; and 

 from them are sprung all the Magas (or Mugs) iii 

 the eastern parts of India, the Barman empire, Siain, 

 and China. I shall give an account of their origia 

 and emigration to India, when I come to treat of the 

 White Island. The other Brdhmens in India are 

 called Canyacuhja^ because that was their first settle* 



